so ants will quickly make a dash into the house, and if you are in bear-country, look out. Bears love to eat honey.
Problem with honey bees
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Well, her house needs to be condemned anyway. There are no ceilings in her home upstairs due to her knocking it all down years ago. There is cat mess all inside her house upstairs starting with the stairs due to cats that get in her house.
Might be some dead ones up there for all I know. The upstairs is hot. I've found somewhat of a solution here though. I read on the world of hummingbird site that if you put sugar water out for the bees in something yellow colored or have something yellow colored nearby it will draw the bees to it.
Sure enough, my husband called me around 11:30 and said the yellow thing I had put on a ladder with sugar water in it had attracted most of the bees and most were going to it instead of the feeders. There are a few still out around the feeders but not many.
The hummers are able to get on the feeders some. I need to fill them up tonight, as I know I won't be able to mess with them tomorrow morning. And it is hard to get them down with bees on them. Will probably have to wait until near dark. What temperature does it take to get rid of them as to driving them to hibernate or whatever they do?
Might be some dead ones up there for all I know. The upstairs is hot. I've found somewhat of a solution here though. I read on the world of hummingbird site that if you put sugar water out for the bees in something yellow colored or have something yellow colored nearby it will draw the bees to it.
Sure enough, my husband called me around 11:30 and said the yellow thing I had put on a ladder with sugar water in it had attracted most of the bees and most were going to it instead of the feeders. There are a few still out around the feeders but not many.
The hummers are able to get on the feeders some. I need to fill them up tonight, as I know I won't be able to mess with them tomorrow morning. And it is hard to get them down with bees on them. Will probably have to wait until near dark. What temperature does it take to get rid of them as to driving them to hibernate or whatever they do?
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good. that's their food not the bees.
All I figure is there has to be a hive somewhere. Last year when we had a few bees at our bird bath I watched them fly back up to the pine trees by our driveway. So I figure that is where their hive is. I was around the side of the house watching to see if I saw any go through the slatted part of the house at attic level and did not. So obviously their hive is not there. But there are so many flying around I cannot tell where they are.
I have had to rescue two hummingbirds today on my front porch. One this morning was hung up in a spiderweb by its right wing this morning and was chattering away in panic, and just now another one was stuck under our front porch flying along the ceiling bumping the ceiling and chirping. Our porch is covered over and I think he was confused.
He landed up on the little ledge behind a column and I tried to get him off of there and then he flew and landed on the ledge above our door, and was sitting up. I reached up there and cupped him in my hands and his left wing had spiderwebs on it. I pulled them off and checked his wing and went off the porch and he flew off.
How is it these hummingbirds let humans handle them so easily??? I just love it.
I have had to rescue two hummingbirds today on my front porch. One this morning was hung up in a spiderweb by its right wing this morning and was chattering away in panic, and just now another one was stuck under our front porch flying along the ceiling bumping the ceiling and chirping. Our porch is covered over and I think he was confused.
He landed up on the little ledge behind a column and I tried to get him off of there and then he flew and landed on the ledge above our door, and was sitting up. I reached up there and cupped him in my hands and his left wing had spiderwebs on it. I pulled them off and checked his wing and went off the porch and he flew off.
How is it these hummingbirds let humans handle them so easily??? I just love it.
...LadyD...The Hummingbird Whisperer.
I love handling them. And watching them. But I don't like it when they fight over the feeders. I think the poor thing was seeing his shadow on the ceiling of the porch, he kept lightly bumping his head. They go into a sleep state called torper. I think it was time for his night night. And it takes them as much as an hour sometimes to wake up in the morning. It is going to be around 56 here in the morning. A little cool but maybe it will keep the bees at bay for a while.
But I don't like it when they fight over the feeders. I think the poor thing was seeing his shadow on the ceiling of the porch, he kept lightly bumping his head. They go into a sleep state called torper. I think it was time for his night night. And it takes them as much as an hour sometimes to wake up in the morning. It is going to be around 56 here in the morning. A little cool but maybe it will keep the bees at bay for a while.
I feel like it Miss Kitty. I like that title.
Can't let anything happen to my birds. Will have to get rid of the spider web in the morning for sure first thing if that spider spins its web again in front of that column. Cannot have another hummer caught up in the web.
i love watching those little hummers.
p.s. lady d there's a tornado warning in knoxville right now, they're advising everyone to go to neyland stadium where there is no chance of a touchdown.
...LadyD is going to teach those hummers some tricks and they will come and beat you with their wings.